For 40 years, the Undercroft on Southbank in London has been home to Skateboarders. It’s an iconic site where physical skill meets street art.

Recently this site has been under significant threat due to a £120 million redevelopment scheme for areas of the Southbank Centre, which would have seen the Undercroft replaced by Restaurants and Shops and the skateboarders re-located to a purpose-built park. But the plans have now been withdrawn and skateboarding will live on here – at least in the short-term.

The park is often quiet during the working week, and it was deathly quiet when I visited. There’s not an inch of wall that hasn’t been painted and re-painted countless times over the years. And I would bet that some of the images you see here, taken only last month, will already have been covered over with new art.

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Hi - I'm a UK-based photographer who started out 45+ years ago as a lover of landscapes, inspired by my love of outdoor pursuits: skiing, walking and climbing. Now retired, I seldom leave home without a camera and I find images in unexpected places and from different genres. I work on the premise that Photography is Art and that creativity is dependent on the cultivation of 'A Seeing Eye'.

There is always something worth photographing here – although a lot of the art is crowded and overlapping. Strangely I’ve never once seen anyone working on a new piece of ‘Art’. Maybe it all happens late at night.

Hi Jim. Thanks for commenting. Yes, the Graffiti changes every week almost. There are a couple of major new exhibits too. One high up on the wall of the QE hall by Roa (see my Post https://lensscaper.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/squirrels/ ) and the other not visible from the River walkway, but if you head behind the QE Hall you will find an extraordinary fresco by an artist called Phlegm. I must post some images of it sometime soon.

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